[PATCH 1/11] ntdll: Make nt_to_unix_file_name_attr return always safe to free.

[Alexandre Julliard]

"Erich E. Hoover" <erich.e.hoover at gmail.com> writes:

> While working on an upcoming patch set I discovered that several of
> the file handling primitives are not safe to free under all
> circumstances.  This would not normally be a problem (since a
> comparison can usually be made against STATUS_SUCCESS).  However,
> there are several cases where this comparison is insufficient (mostly
> when STATUS_NO_SUCH_FILE occurs).  There are two ways to solve this
> problem:
> 1) Make these routines always safe to free (and always free them)
> 2) Specifically add checks for STATUS_NO_SUCH_FILE and free all these
> cases manually

STATUS_NO_SUCH_FILE returning a valid string only happens when trying to
create the file or things like that, not for normal opens, so most of
your changes are unnecessary.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org